Standalone Installation

The required software for installing Rattle under MS/Windows has
been packaged into a single Distribution as a CD image
for installation on a standalone computer to install all the required
packages to get a fully functional Rattle.

Once downloaded it will take about 15 minutes to install rattle with
full functionality on MS/Windows. In brief, the steps are:

Browse to the CD

Install R by double clicking the icon for
R-2.11.1-win32.exe. Choose the default options, when asked, unless
you know better.

Start up R (Click the R Icon on the Desktop).

From the File menu choose "Change dir..."

Browse to and select the Distribution and click the OK button.

From the File menu choose "Source R code..."

Select install.R and click the Open button. If any of the
requisite applications fails to install, try installing them by
browsing to the Distribution folder and directly double clicking the
appropriate .exe file, as we did to install R.

From the File menu choose Packages->Install ... local
zip.... This will install a suite of prerequisite applications
for R and Rattle. On MS/Windows 7 watch for Installer icons in
the bottom panel and click them to continue the installation.

Browse to the Rpackages folder within the Distribution.

Select all files (Ctrl-A).

Click Open. This should install each package. At random times an error
occurs in normalizePath(path). If that occurs, repeat the
selection of R packages, but instead of selecting all files,
select the package that failed, plus all of the following packages.